I don't know how or when it began that KC started to love flattening pennies into little souvenirs. Whenever she saw a penny machine she had to have a penny and two quarters to pay for it.
I do know it started when she was little and now she inserts the money and does the cranking on her own. I imagined she'd have huge pile of them. Our daughter said she'd gotten a book for KC to organize her pennies.
There was another page of pennies, but that was all. Hmmm... I think we'll have to take KC to more museums and national parks where she can fill more pages of pennies. And perhaps I should go to the bank and ask them for a roll of quarters and some shinier pennies.
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I just looked on Amazon and saw the Penny Collecting Book. Sheesh! You can find almost anything on Amazon.
I do know it started when she was little and now she inserts the money and does the cranking on her own. I imagined she'd have huge pile of them. Our daughter said she'd gotten a book for KC to organize her pennies.
There was another page of pennies, but that was all. Hmmm... I think we'll have to take KC to more museums and national parks where she can fill more pages of pennies. And perhaps I should go to the bank and ask them for a roll of quarters and some shinier pennies.
POSTSCRIPT:
I just looked on Amazon and saw the Penny Collecting Book. Sheesh! You can find almost anything on Amazon.
I have never heard of this, but I think I know an 8-year-old boy who would get into this.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard of it either. I would think that flattening them would destroy their value.
ReplyDeleteI have dished out pennies and quarters for these machines but I didn't realize there was a book to keep them in. That makes it more of a collection than throwing them in toy box where they settle to the bottom and may never be seen again.
ReplyDeletesounds like a fun way to collect coins and visit interesting places!
ReplyDeleteMy son made one at the Titanic Museum in Branson, Mo this past week.
ReplyDeleteOur new great-granddaughter loves doing this too. Thanks for letting us know about the book. We will ask if she has one.
ReplyDeleteMy son is 21 and when we were in Chicago last month he had to get those penny collectibles. Never ends...lol. There is a website that lists where you can find the machines.
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A website? Wow! Those places seem to be everywhere!
DeleteMy brother loved those things. I don't like them, never found the copper to be easy to read
ReplyDeleteI just disposed of my coin collect. Very few of them were worth anything.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were kids we would lay a penny on a railroad track and let the train flatten them. We never got anything but flatten pennies. I have always been curious about those machines. The book is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter used to enjoy collecting these!
ReplyDeleteInteresting hobby
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of National Parks: there is a "passport" which you can get stamped when you visit a national park. It's sort of fun, actually. I've had mine stamped at Haleakala on Maui and at the Volcano on the Big Island. Probably Pearl Harbor does it too.
ReplyDeleteOh yes! We did get one of those passports for KC and she's got quite a few stamps in them.
DeleteMy granddaughter has a pile of smashed pennies, too. The last from the Smithsonian on the Mall in DC.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize they were souvenir pennies. I thought you just used real pennies, but then they would all just be the same, nothing to collect, I guess.
ReplyDeleteActually, you do use real pennies and the machine flattens them out into little souvenirs.
DeleteI never heard of this activity. I guess I'm falling behind in the latest fads. And yes, you can find everything on line these days! :-)
ReplyDeletewhat a great little hobby!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter used to enjoy collecting these!
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